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According to Wikipedia [0] it has at least three meanings: 1.) The period 1871-1873 of rapid economic growth in the German empire following the peace treaty th
by hodgesrm 3y ago
According to Wikipedia [0] it has at least three meanings:
1.) The period 1871-1873 of rapid economic growth in the German empire following the peace treaty that ended the war of 1870. It ended with a stock market crash (aka Gründerkrach).
2.) More generally the period of broad industrialization from 1870 to 1914.
3.) Somewhat confusingly for architecture it's applied to buildings of the late 1800s through about 1900.
Personally I always understood it as #2 and #3. My in-laws lived for many years in Kassel, which has a lot of houses from that era in the upper part of town around Wilhelmshöhe.
[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnderzeit https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnderzeit